John Pruitt

Assistant Professor of English
Office: 433 Laird Fine Arts Bldg
715.389.6547
jpruitt@uwc.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Ohio University, 2005
Dissertation: British Drama Museums: History, Heritage, and Nation in Collections of Dramatic Literature, 1647-1847

 

Publications

“Thomas Dibdin,” Nineteenth-Century British Dramatists, in Dictionary of Literary Biography (forthcoming).

“Some Current Publications,” Restoration 25.2 (2001): 139-69.

Review of Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss (Durham: Duke UP, 1998), Milton Quarterly 32.4 (1998): 146-47.

 

Conference Papers

“Illegitimate Play Collections: Boorish Spectacles in Print,” ASECS, Montreal, April 2006.

“Citizenship in Wisconsin: A Roundtable Discussion of a Collaborative State-Wide English 101 Course,” CCCC, Chicago, March 2006. Panel with Heidi Rosenberg, Chris Taylor, Judy Barisonzi, and Janet LaBrie.

Chair, “Literary Collections and England’s National Landscape,” M/MLA, Milwaukee, November 2005.

“Robert Dodsley’s Select Collection of Old Plays and the Radical Footman Who Assembled It,” ASECS/ISECS, Los Angeles, August 2003.

Chair, “’Love’s Theater’?: The Problem with Beds in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Culture,” Midwest Conference on British Studies, Columbus, October 2002.

“Pondering the Eighteenth-Century Collection of Plays,” ASECS, Colorado Springs, April 2002.

“’Old Novels New Vamped’: William Godwin’s Faulkener and Evolving Genres of Late-Eighteenth-Century Dramatic Texts,” GEMCS, Philadelphia, November 2001.

“Extending Ourselves: A Conversation about Audience and Prejudice in Evaluating Writing,” CCCC, Denver, March 2001. Panel with Mara Holt, Anthony Viola, and Mark Rankin.

“Intimate Space/Public Dissent: Garrick’s Acting Sensibility and the Consumption of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Theater,” GEMCS, New Orleans, November 2000.

 

Current Projects

The Politics of British Literary Collections, co-edited with Sarah Pogell, UW-Stevens Point, in process at request of Cambridge Scholars Press

“Robert Dodsley: Play Collector, Theater Historian, Political Reactionary” (article)

Critical edition of James Boaden’s Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald

 

Courses

Literature                                                                                            Composition

ENG 250: Introduction to Literature                                                ENG 101: Composition I

ENG 251: Introduction to Dramatic Literature                               ENG 102: Composition II

ENG 276: Twentieth-Century Literature

ENG 277: Film Studies

 

Academic and Teaching Awards

UW-Madison/UW Colleges Summer Research Grant, 2005

John Houk Memorial Research Grant, AY 2001-2002

Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, 2000-2001

 

Pedagogical Development

Technology, Colleges & Community Worldwide Online Conference, sponsored by University of Hawaii, 19-21 April, 2005

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop, UW-Baraboo, 1 April 2005

Learning Is Local: Using the At-Hand Landscape in Learning and Research, sponsored by UW-Stevens Point Extension, 19 November 2004

“Learning to Read”: A Workshop and Forum on Teaching Literature, sponsored by UW-Marathon County, 12 August 2004

 

Service and Outreach

Professional

NCTE Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Issues in Academic Studies

 

University

Diversity Task Force, UW-Marshfield/Wood County, 2005

Steering Committee, UW-Marshfield/Wood County, 2004-present

Affirmative Actions Committee, UW-Marshfield/Wood County, 2004-present

Assessment Committee, UW-Colleges English Department, 2004-present

Faculty Advisor, Students Opposing Acts of Prejudice, UW-Marshfield/Wood County, 2004-05

 

Community

Newsletter Editor, On Line, Friends of the Marshfield Public Library